From the time I informed my kindergarten teacher that I understood the concept of negative numbers when other students didn’t understand addition or subtraction yet, I have had pressure on me to never settle for average. My older siblings, who are eleven, eight, and five years older than me, were the run of the mill students who just did as much as they could to scathe by their high school career. My parents attempted pushing them to achieve bigger...

Coming into college I didn't have the luxury of knowing many people that also attended the same university, so I...